Draft genome sequence including the capsule operon of a Bacillus cereus strain isolated from a patient with bacteremia in Japan

Akiko Okutani; Shu Okugawa; Fumie Fujimoto; Mahoko Ikeda; Takeya Tsutsumi; Kyoji Moriya; Ken Maeda

doi:10.1128/MRA.00766-23

Draft genome sequence including the capsule operon of a Bacillus cereus strain isolated from a patient with bacteremia in Japan

Microbiol Resour Announc. 2024 Feb 15;13(2):e0076623. doi: 10.1128/MRA.00766-23. Epub 2024 Jan 5.

Authors

Akiko Okutani¹, Shu Okugawa², Fumie Fujimoto³, Mahoko Ikeda², Takeya Tsutsumi², Kyoji Moriya², Ken Maeda¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Veterinary Science, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan.
² Department of Infectious Diseases, The University of Tokyo Hospital, Tokyo, Japan.
³ Department of Infection Control and Prevention, The University of Tokyo Hospital, Tokyo, Japan.

Abstract

Bacillus cereus, which causes opportunistic infections in hospitals as well as food poisoning, is genetically similar to Bacillus anthracis. We herein report the draft genome including the capsule operon of B. cereus BCER1 isolated from the blood of a hospital patient in Japan.

Keywords: Bacillus cereus; bacteremia; capsule.

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